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New bride's shocking discovery of child porn on husband's phone

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A newlywed who feared her husband was cheating made a horrifying discovery after checking his mobile phone for clues.

Bride Jane Gaskin, 47, from Birmingham, instead discovered indecent images of children that revealed the true nature of her beloved groom.

Stunned Gaskin was so disgusted by the child pornography she found on her new husband's phone that she immediately called police.

The ink on their marriage certificate was barely dry when lorry driver David Huggins, 48, was arrested and Jane threw him out just 10 weeks after their wedding.

He later pleaded guilty to four counts of making indecent photographs of children and was given an eight month suspended sentence and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for ten years.

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To make matters worse she remains married to Huggins, unable to afford to divorce him after spending all her savings on their wedding.

She was unable to have the marriage annulled.

She said: "I had absolutely no idea. When he lost interest in sex and became secretive around his phone I became suspicious that he had another woman.

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"I checked his phone expecting to find evidence he was seeing someone, but what I saw was far worse

"To think I married a man as sick as him has destroyed me but it's the poor children that I really feel for.

"They are the true victims.

"I want to share my story to warn other women and encourage people to report sick men like David.

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"It broke me but it was the right thing to do because men like him need to be stopped."

Grandmother Jane had been single since losing her husband, also called Dave and the father of her four children years earlier to a lung disorder.

She began chatting to Huggins through mutual friends online in August 2014 . He told her he was separated with grown up kids.

A few weeks later they met and he charmed her with his chivalrous ways.

She was soon smitten with this 'true gent', the first man she had dated since her husband had died, and he quickly moved in.

Her four children - three of whom still lived at home and were aged 22, 21 and 13 - took to him straight away, as did all of her friends.

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She said: "We knew so many of the same people and places and he got on so well with my family.

"I felt so lucky to have met him and have a second chance at love."

In December 2014 he proposed and support care worker Jane began planning their May 2015 wedding.

She says he was so perfect in every other way that his low sex drive didn't bother her.

She said: "He was always too tired and blamed work.

"It wasn't ideal but he was so lovely, kind and considerate it didn't bother me."

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They said "I do" surrounded by friends and family on May 23rd last year. But within weeks of the wedding the honeymoon was well and truly over.

Huggins was even less interested in sex than normal, and became possessive of his phone.

She noticed he had been messaging an old female friend but he insisted there was nothing in it.

She said: "I kept asking myself could he really be having an affair just weeks after the wedding? It seemed ridiculous but all the signs were there."

So when he left his phone downstairs one night 10 weeks after their wedding, Jane couldn't resist a peek when it started beeping.

She found no evidence of another woman, but did discover indecent images of children.
Horrified, Gaskin immediately confronted her husband.

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"I was shaking so much I almost dropped it. It was the most disgusting and upsetting thing I had seen in my life," she said.

She says Huggins took one look at her face and knew what she had found.

Gaskin fled to a friend's house with the phone and told her to hide it to preserve the evidence while she rang police.

Huggins was arrested and given bail to a different address.

She said: "I immediately took down all the wedding photos and deleted him on facebook.

"It was so hard but I never once regretted reporting him. I suffered terrible anxiety but it was nothing compared to what those kids had gone through."

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In June this year Huggins appeared at Birmingham Crown Court and pleaded guilty to four counts of making indecent photographs of a child.

On 22 July 2016 he was given an eight month suspended prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.

Gaskin, who is now trying to rebuild her life said: "It was a kick in the teeth for all he had done.

"I wish he had been cheating with another woman because the truth was so much worse."

"I'm still married to the pervert and I just want to get divorced as quickly as possible.

"And importantly I want other women to know who he is and how he gets his kicks."

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